Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 148
Spurring his horse, he charged Torlen, the King of Persia, and struck his shield fairly with his spear.
Who acts: first · What happens: spur, charge, strike · To what, where: horse, Torlen, shield
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spurring | spur | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 charged | advcl |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 horse | nmod:poss |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Spurring | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Spurring | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 charged | nsubj |
| 6 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Torlen | Torlen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 charged | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 King | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Torlen | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Persia | case |
| 12 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 King | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 struck | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 struck | cc |
| 15 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 charged | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 shield | nmod:poss |
| 17 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 struck | obj |
| 18 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 15 struck | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 spear | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 spear | nmod:poss |
| 21 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 struck | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 charged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spur | gerund | first not said here | first's horse | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 2 | charge | past | first | Torlen | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location torlen=Theme | ||||
| 3 | strike | past | first not said here | first's shield | with first's spear; fairly property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent shield=Patient with spear=Instrument |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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